Facilitator School
This website congregates dozens of facilitation training programs, and allows you to filter by price, duration, and location.
IAF Endorsed™ Facilitation Training Programs
A list of available facilitation training programs endorsed by the International Association of Facilitators
Team Science Practices Module
From the Synthesis Skills for Early Career Researchers Course: In this module, we’ll dive into some of the literature underlying our recommended team science practices (the science of team science). We’ll also explore some of the more common types of conflicts that arise in synthesis work and ways to anticipate, prevent (when possible), and resolve… Read more »
Inclusive Facilitation Module
From the Synthesis Skills for Early Career Researchers course: The success of a collaborative synthesis science project rests in no small part on the ability of the team of researchers to work effectively together and to draw on the full range of expertise, knowledge, and capacity in the group. Effective facilitation of team meetings can… Read more »
ADVANCEing FieldSafety Module Two: Communication and Leadership
Module two from the ADVANCEing FieldSafety Toolkit shares a variety of tools for field leaders and participants to increase communication, and facilitate healthy dialog in a field setting.
DEI Statements Are Not About Ideology. They’re About Accountability.
Chronicle of Higher education article with recommendations on centering accountability in DEI statements.
Broadening Participation Committee
This LTER page includes a description of the Broadening Participation Committee’s function, activities, and membership.
The Fieldwork Initiative
The Fieldwork Initiative is a grassroots network of over 3,500 students and researchers facing trauma, unsafe conditions, or sexual harassment and assault during research fieldwork. The Fieldwork Initiative seeks to maintain a network for victims who have struggled with gendered violence while conducting research and to proliferate pre-fieldwork training seminars that break open the blackbox… Read more »
An actionable anti-racism plan for geoscience organizations
This paper presents a twenty-point anti-racism plan that organizations can implement to build an inclusive, equitable and accessible geoscience community. Enacting it will combat racism, discrimination, and the harassment of all members.
What is Bias
This page defines bias (explicit and implicit) microaggressions, and then aggregates resources on bias in sciences general and geosciences specifically. The page also shares resources on how implicit bias affects self-perception.
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